"From the book named Smithville due to be released March 23, 2009" Robert settled in with his family
around 1850 south of Smithville on the county line near Barton's Creek. At age 16, he became a scout for the 5th Texas Calvary,
Company I, riding his horse "Seven Up" throughout the Civil War and bringing it back home with him. He was
married to Mary Ann Jeffrey and then to Asenath Louisa Scallorn, producing thirteen children, before he died in 1927.